(Pursuant to the notice thrown out by the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce.) The Construction and Extensive use of a Newly Invented Universal Seed-Furrow Plough (from time to time exposíd to the public view of abundance of people.) Upon an easy, steady principle, suited to all soils, stiff or light, level or ridgíd; and capable of sowing all sorts of seeds, in three rows, thicker or thinner, deeper or shallower, and the furrows or rows nearer or further asunder, just as the owner pleases. Also, by the invitation of the Society, the construction of a draining plough, upon a very simple principle. Both published with a view, that the ingenious may, within the Societyís limited time, see what is wanting to put

London: Sold by John Wilkie, [1764.],

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Author

Randall (Joseph)

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London: Sold by John Wilkie, [1764.]

Keyword

AGRICULTURE TECHNOLOGY ECONOMICS

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First and only edition, 4to (250 x 200 mm), xi, [2], xiii-xiv, [2], 12-97, [1]pp., (pp. xiv-xv misnumbered xiii-xiv), 7 engraved folding plates, occasional foxing or light browning, offsetting, plate 3 repaired at head (not affecting image), recent green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Here Randall is continuing the Tullian debate. He highlights the advantages of the Tullian system, especially when carried out with the aid of the ëingeniousí implements he has designed. His seed-furrow plough, along the lines of Tullís drill, was criticised as being too complicated and his system of husbandry was described by a fellow agricultural writer John Wynne Baker as ëfounded on the labours of othersí. Provenance: The Lawes Agriculture Library, Rothamsted Research Institute. Fussell II, pp. 58-59; Rothamsted Library, p. 124.